(Yicai Global) Nov. 7 -- China is poised to overtake the EU to become the world's largest consumer of renewable energy by 2023, thanks to government policy to spur clean power development, the International Energy Agency said. The world needs to use more renewable energy, above all outside the electricity sector, since it will otherwise falter in the fight against climate change, the Paris-based autonomous intergovernmental agency advised, online news portal Sina reported.